Updated 4:17 am CDT, Wednesday, June 12, 2019 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Latest on Mideast developments amid rising tensions in the Persian Gulf region (all times local): 1:05 p.m. The Saudi-led coalition in Yemen says 26 people have been wounded as Yemen's Houthi rebels targeted an airport in kingdom's southwestern town of Abha. The attack on Wednesday comes as Japan's prime minister is expected in Iran to mediate between Tehran and Washington amid escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf regions. Coalition spokesman Turki al-Malki says a projectile struck the arrival hall of Abha's airport in the southern part of the kingdom near its border with Yemen on Wednesday. That's according to Saudi Arabia's state-run Al-Ekhabriya news channel. He says three women and two children are among the 26 hurt in the attack. Eight have been hospitalized and the rest sustained minor injuries. The Houthis earlier on Wednesday claimed they'd launched a cruise missile at … [Read more...] about The Latest: Yemen rebels target Saudi airport, 26 wounded

Updated 11:52 pm PDT, Tuesday, June 11, 2019 FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2014 file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, attend a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Abe's trip to Tehran on Wednesday, June 12, 2019, represents the highest-level effort yet to de-escalate tensions between the U.S. and Iran. The visit comes as Iran appears poised to break the 2015 nuclear deal it struck with world powers that America earlier abandoned. less FILE - In this Jan. 22, 2014 file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, attend a session of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Abe's trip to Tehran ... more Photo: Michel Euler, AP Photo: Michel Euler, AP Image 1 of / 1 Caption … [Read more...] about Iran newspaper to Japan: ‘How Can You Trust A War Criminal?’

When it’s all over, this man may have a career waiting in Hollywood! All a 30-something-year-old man had to do to convince British school administrators he belonged in an 11th-grade classroom was shave his beard and don a uniform. The unidentified man, known only as Siavash, played a 15-year-old schoolboy for six weeks at Stoke HS in Ipswich, England. Perceptive students seemed to immediately sense something was amiss when they noticed the 6-foot, 1-inch man sitting beside them. “How’s there a 30-year-old man in our maths class?” a teen student wrote alongside a picture of the new classmate he posted to Snapchat. Other students soon began sharing images seemingly pulled from the man’s Facebook account, showing him with the kind of facial hair few teenage boys could manage, a hairy chest and taking swigs from a beer. The man’s Facebook profile appeared to show he’d been an architecture student at the Islamic Azad University in Abadan, Iran, … [Read more...] about 30-year-old asylum seeker convinced school he was 15